These Resplendent tools are a joke

[Espritduo]

I feel like something they could do to alleviate the nastiness of this whole process is something they did back in the old ARR relic tool days. Give us a way to get back the materials when we don't make a good enough turnin. Like, a 40k collectibility item can still be turned to get the 2 mats that went into it back, and 30k collectibility gets you one of the mats back. This way you aren't just gut punched back to the beginning unless you totally fail the craft. 30k collectibility I think is a pretty reliable amount for a person who is somewhat used to expert crafts even if they get pretty terrible RNG. This way, while the grind is still intense, at least the most demoralizing part of it - going all the way back to the start and wasting your previous successful expert crafts - isn't as much of a big deal. And it is something that could easily be patched in.

EDIT: And like the person above, I put serious effort into making sure I had every recipe ticked off with each patch, in expectation of the new I Made That achievement. Like, okay, I get that they wanted something different for the glam tools this time, but the new I Made That achievement should still have existed, maybe with a title or something this time. Like, why even bother checking the things off at all now? It's making me seriously question if I should put in the effort to fill out the log in Endwalkers if SE is just going to do the same thing again. Very bad decision on their part.